Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination - Krupnick, Mark, 1939-; Carney, Jean K.; Shechner, Mark.; ebrary, Inc. (Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)
"A shit-filled life": Philip Roth's Sabbath's theater -- "We are here to be humiliated": Philip Roth's recent fiction -- Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust testimonies -- Cynthia Ozick: embarrassments -- Lionel Trilling and "the deep places of the imagination" -- The Trillings : a marriage of true minds? -- Lionel Trilling and the politics of style -- Philip Rahv : "he never learned to swim" -- Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe -- The two worlds of cultural criticism -- Edmund Wilson and gentile philo-Semitism -- Listmania in Humboldt's gift -- Assimilation in recent American Jewish autobiographies -- Revisiting Morrie: were his last words too good to be true? -- The art of the obituary -- Why are English departments still fighting the culture wars? -- Upon retirement.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-354) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Imagination; Jews in literature; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life; Judaism and literature -- United States; Judaism in literature; Electronic books